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Why Is India Running Out Of Oxygen?

Hospitals don't have enough oxygen for patients on ventilators. There are delivery bottlenecks. Families are sometimes told to get their own supplies. Health experts say it didn't have to be this way.
- Lauren Frayer
Giving 2 Doses Of Different COVID-19 Vaccines Could Boost Immune Response

Using two different COVID-19 vaccines is a bit like giving the immune system two pictures of the virus, maybe one face-on and one in profile.
- Joe Palca
COVID-19 Reaches Mount Everest As Nepal Struggles With Record Infections

Climbers are reporting an outbreak at Everest Base Camp in Nepal, where hundreds of climbers assemble as they prepare for summiting the world's tallest peak.
- Scott Neuman
U.S. Birth Rate Fell By 4% In 2020, Hitting Another Record Low

For the sixth year in a row, the number of U.S. births fell in 2020, reaching the lowest level since 1979. The fertility rate remains "below replacement" — the level needed to compensate for deaths.
- Bill Chappell
Administration Plan Will Make It Easier To Get Access To Vaccines

NPR's Noel King talks to Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy about why vaccination rates are slowing, and how the administration plans to get to get 70% of adults at least partially vaccinated by July 4.
As U.S. COVID-19 Cases Drop, India Experiences A Crisis

India's count of COVID-19 cases has passed 20 million. Indian Americans are sounding the alarm that the surge demands global attention, and are raising money to help send supplies and aid to India.
- Quil Lawrence
Vaccinated and ready to celebrate? Not so fast.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is expected to announce which counties will have to fall back a phase in the state's reopening plan. King County is one of at least a dozen counties that is not currently meeting the benchmarks to remain in the more loose Phase 3.
- Katie Campbell
Pfizer Says FDA Will Soon Authorize COVID-19 Vaccine For 12-15 Age Group

The company said in late March that clinical trials showed the vaccine elicits "100% efficacy and robust antibody responses" in adolescents.
- Bill Chappell
India Crosses 20 Million COVID-19 Cases As Critical Shortages Worsen

In just the past week, India has seen its COVID-19 cases jump by 2,646,526 — a figure that, if it stood alone, would make India the 14th worst-hit nation in the world.
- Bill Chappell
One Of The World's Poorest Countries Has One Of The World's Lowest COVID Death Rates

As of the end of April, only 254 deaths were attributed to COVID in Haiti over the course of the entire pandemic. Why has the death rate been so low?
- Jason Beaubien

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